Baber and his Turks

India from three distinct sources. First, those of Baber and his Turks, so-called

Mughals, which culminated in the establishment of the Mughal Empire; secondly,
those of the Arghuns, headed by Shah Beg, which established a temporary
dynasty in Sindh, sweeping away the Samma Jams; and, thirdly, that of the
Baloches, which, though it did not establish any dynasty, contributed a more
important element to the population of Northern India than either of the others.
Before their final descent into India the Baloches seem to have been in occupation
of the Kilat highlands, now held by the Brahois. It seems at least probable that
their wars with the Brahois had some connection with their onward movement,
but their own tradition tells us nothing of it. It is commonly asserted by writers
on the subject that a Hindu tribe called Sewa was in possession of Kilat, and that
they called in the services of the Brahois to protect them against the Baloches.
Some hold the Brahios to be aborigines of the country, and this idea seems to be
based on the fact of their language containing a strong Dravidian element, but
they themselves claim, like the Baloches, to have come from Halab. It is at least a
theory worthy of some consideration that they are identical with the Koch, the
neighbours of the Baloch in Karman. The Koch, as we have seen, were often
described as very like the Kurds, and were sometimes even called Kurds. There
is still a powerful tribe among the Brahois bearing the name of Kurd, or Kird,
and a clan of Kirds is even found among the Baloch Mazari. The Brahoi language
is still called by the Baloches Kur-gali, or Kir-gali—that is, the language of the
Kurds—although it has no connection with the Kurdish language, which is an
Iranian dialect with some points of resemblance to Balochi. It is, however, at
present impossible to do more than state, as a probability, that the Brahois came
from the west, and that their occupation of the highlands had something to do
with the Baloch descent on the plains. The separation between the Northern
Baloches and those of Mekran dates from this period.